to disappear / to vanish / to eliminate / to spend (time) / have to / need
消
=
氵
+
肖
:
In front of the aorta, Marie Curie tells the Little Prince that she knows a neat trick how to let the water in his little water bottle disappear. The Little Prince is curious and lets her show her trick, but she just drinks the bottle empty. The Little Prince thinks that this trick is not only a Little Lame.
to waste / to spend / to consume / to squander / news / (coll.) to delay / to dilly-dally
耗
=
毛
+
耒
:
Hamlet (h) got the task to drive a plow (耒) through a lot of hair (毛) in the aorta's bathroom (ao4). He thinks that it is just a waste (耗) of gasoline (油耗) because it requires a lot of time and energy (耗时耗力), but he does it anyway.
量
=
旦
+
里
:
Li Qingzhao (li) uses a measuring cup (量) for a recipe in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). Unfortunately she made a terrible mistake: instead of measuring cups (旦) of sunflowers (里), she throws sunflowers and cups together into a measuring cup.